Pronunciation
Ok, this has nothing to do with cats or knitting and only remotely with plants.
How do *you* pronounce Fuchsia? A discussion going on one of my gardening lists started a thread about correct pronounciations of plants. Of course one of the most common pronounciation mistakes seems to be Cotoneaster, which is usually pronounced by someone who’s only seen it in print as ‘Cotton Easter’, instead of it’s common pronounciation of kot-tõn-ee-ã-ster. The discussion led to the correct pronounciation of Fuchsia. It is correctly pronounced as fuks-ee-a, not as I’ve pronounced it all my life, fush-a. A check through a plant dictionary, confirms the first, but I *think* I’d get blank stares if I went into a nursery and asked to see some fuks-ee-a’s.
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Richard wrote:
Fee-U-sha. That is the way I have heard and pronounced that certain color.
I would also like to say that I have just recently started reading and so far, I like! I’ll be back!
Posted on 30-Apr-03 at 10:30 am | Permalink
Jerry wrote:
Actually my pronounciation is closer to few-sha.
And welcome…
Posted on 30-Apr-03 at 1:02 pm | Permalink
Emma wrote:
Few-sha is the common pronounciation in England ,which is why it’s so hard to spell !
Fuks-ee-a … yeh right ! The response would probably be along the lines of ”I’ll fuks-ee-a as well ,pal !” ;-]
Posted on 30-Apr-03 at 4:27 pm | Permalink